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FileMaker Pro 7: New Features
Manage it all.
On August 29, 2005, FileMaker announced the best FileMaker ever: FileMaker 8. We recognize that some customers may need to buy FileMaker 7 products while they make the transition to FileMaker 8, so FileMaker 7 products will be available, direct from FileMaker, until December 30, 2005. See the following information to learn more about FileMaker Pro 7, or click here to see all the exciting new features in FileMaker Pro 8.
FileMaker Pro 7 manages even more of your information than ever before! With new and improved features, including breakthroughs in ease of use and customization, FileMaker Pro 7 addresses the needs of millions of FileMaker customers worldwide.
Import, export, and store more types of files
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- Import, export and store many types of file in new, flexible Container fields that can bring your database to life with new types of content.
- Extend any FileMaker solution to include documents, spreadsheets and other information along with your current information.
- Optionally choose to link to files instead of storing them in your database.
- Insert and export digital pictures, movies, music, Microsoft® Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Adobe® Acrobat PDF files, PowerPoint presentation files, and more.
- Have all your critical information in one place and instantly accessible.
Easily create a digital library of documents, music and pictures, store proposals within client records, or link schedule files directly to students.
Get faster access to information with multiple windows
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- Open multiple windows for the same database on-screen at once so you'll have faster access to the information you need.
- Open as many new windows as you want to see with as much data as your monitor can handle.
- Now you can view a report in one window, while you look up information in another.
- Each window can even show results from a different query so get ready to multi-task even more!
View a report in one window while looking up information in another. Great for multi-tasking!
Dramatically increase the capacity of your database
- Store virtually unlimited amounts of data in a single database with significantly expanded database and field size limits.
- Databases can store up to 8 terabytes of information—4,000 times the old limit!
- Fields can store up to 4 gigabytes.
- Text fields can now store up to 2 gigabytes.
Imagine creating a searchable research database where each record can store entire documents in a single field. Or store an author's complete library of work in one record!
Produce easier-to-read, more informative reports
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- Create reports that automatically apply font styles, including color and size, based on calculations that you specify. For example, calculations results, such as an expired renewal date, can be automatically formatted in a bold, red, 14-point font.
- Specify a background color that can alternate by row for easier viewing of information.
- Specify portal specific sort orders and starting portal row number.
- Sort reports based on summary fields.
Highlight overdue amounts in bright red, current accounts in blue, and call attention to other important information automatically.
Ensure more accurate data entry and safer updates
- A new option allows you to confirm record and layout changes before they are saved to the database. This feature is great to ensure accurate data entry and for experimenting with new layouts and database structures—and it can be disabled at any time.
- The new status area more clearly shows the current database mode that you're in: Browse, Find, Layout, or Preview, to avoid costly data entry errors and allow faster switching between modes.
Eliminate inadvertent deletions of field information and safely experiment with new layouts.
Learn new techniques with customizable pre-designed Starter Solutions
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- 30 Starter Solutions provide a great resource to learn new techniques that you can apply to your existing databases.
- The Starter Solutions are ready to use right away, or easily customized for your specific needs.
Re-use buttons, scripts, and layouts and apply them to your existing database or use the pre-designed templates to organize more areas of your business.
Extend richer solutions to the web
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- Partners, customers, and remote users with web browsers will now see your solutions in a more intuitive, familiar FileMaker environment.
- New support for more than 70 web script steps give you the ability to share new and richer solutions over the web with up to 5 concurrent users without any HTML coding.
- You can now reuse the security and user definitions from your desktop solution.
- Record locking and other security features are now extended to web users.
Imagine publishing your product catalog to the web in a few simple steps and having it accessible to customers and partners instantly.
Manage your database faster with the new relational model
- Now store multiple database tables in one file instead of having to break them up into multiple files.
- Create security accounts and scripts once and share them across your entire solution.
Sharing security accounts and scripts across your entire solutions have never been easier.
More easily create and modify links between data
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- View and manipulate a visual "map" of your database showing a graphical representation of all your database tables, displaying all fields and their relationships.
- Get a bird's eye view of all the relationships in your file.
- Establish bi-directional relationships using simple point-and-click linking.
Link invoice details with product inventory by simply drawing a line between fields to establish links.
Develop more powerful solutions with new developer features
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- Get immediate access to more than 100 new and enhanced professional developer features.
- Create solutions that do more choosing from a broad range of features including:
- More versatile scripts that use parameters
- More intelligent calculations with dynamic parameters
- Better solution documentation through the new Comments feature for calculation and field annotations
Control windows and dramatically reduce scripts with more than 100 new features, functions and calculations.
Protect your data with the new advanced security system
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- Secure your database using Account Names and Passwords.
- Assign custom privileges for each user, specifying what they can view and edit, down to the field level.
- Limit what users and groups see and do by restricting access to specific areas of FileMaker.
- More easily specify users' privileges for viewing or editing layouts, value lists and scripts, menu items, and more.
- Specify which users or groups of users can edit, create, delete, and view specific information.
- Security levels that are set up on the desktop also apply when the database is shared with other FileMaker users or over the web.
Give everyone just what they need and no more. Create data entry views, manager views, reporting views, and more—then authorize who can access what.
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